Become a Winner of the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award

Posted by Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services on September 15, 2010

We are proud to announce the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award Challenge! The good news is: winning an award isn’t hard. You don’t have to be able to do a back flip like Dominique Dawes or a triple axel like Michelle Kwan. You don’t have to dunk a basketball like Grant Hill.

To earn this award, you need to get out and move for an hour a day if you’re a kid, and for a half an hour if you’re an adult, five days a week for six weeks.

It’s as easy as going outside and taking a walk. Or you could take the stairs instead of the elevator, or plant your own vegetable garden like the First Lady. That takes care of exercise and a healthy diet at the same time.